DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OBEOON, BATUEDAT, MABCH 22, 1913.
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BY ELECTRICITY
Here is a Little Story of Borne of the
Electric Stunts Done for One
John Smith.
At the shrill command of his oloctric
alarm clock, John Smith, commuter, '
sprang out of bod In the groy dawn j
and switched ou the electric light, lie '
hastily washed with electrically manu-1
facturcd soap. A seasoned veteran of
tho 7.42 express, ho wasted fow min
utes in dressing, but before ho was half '
clad tho wntor was steaming hot in his
electric shaving mug. Dashing down
stairs he attacked a rapld-firo break
fust of eggs, oloctrically boilod, toast,
cloctricully grilled, coffoo, electrically
percolated, and eream, oloctrically sep
arated from milk electrically milked
from cdectrically curried cows. lie
lnshcd out of his front door just in
time to catch au electrically heated and
propelled trolley to the railroad station
built of electrically manufactured ce
ment. While waiting for tho 7:42 ex
jm'ss he liuii'ed au electrically mu.ln
cigarette with nn electrically manufac
tured nmtch. When tho express enmo
up, Mr. Smith settled down in the smok
ing car to read his electrically printed
morning newspaper.
Arriving in town ho descended into
an electrically lighted subway through
which he was whisked on electric cars
safeguarded by electric, signals. Ho
ascended to his twenty story office in
an electric, elevator and touching an
electric button summoned a stenograph
er with electrically curled hair who op
crated nn electrically manufactured
typewriter with electric
. Knough!
But it 's not a joiol
One could take John Smith through
very minute and hour of his business
lay, follow him back home again until
lie turned in for the night and every
minute and hour of that day and night
would be inado in sonio way inbro con
venient and comfortable by tho marvels
of electricity. Thero aro hundreds of
thousands, millions of John Smiths, In
ovory great civilized country today.
The change has come so gradually
that wo do not realize what a revolu
tion electricity has wrought in modern
life. There aro few uses to which elec
tricity is not put in modern industry
and up-to-date households. For an In
. -finite variety of work, ranging from
milking cows to making ice cream, from
running sewing machines to washing
dishes, from the manufacture of loco
motives to tjo making of wall paper,
ffoctivo.-and economical use is now
made of electrical apparatus. Recently
tho Crocker-Wheeler company made a
tabulation of tho purposes for which
one type of tho motors was used, and
tho following list includes only a small
part of the products oloctrically manu
factured: automobiles, barrels, baskots,
boats, boltB and nuts, boots and shoes,
Tiottlos, boxes, bricks, brooms, candles,
cans, carriages, cartridges, cement,
chains, chairs, cignrettes, cordnge, corks,
lovators, envelopes, gun powder, hooks
and eyes, hoops, ico, jewelry, locomo
tives, lead pipes, leather ,lumber,
matches, nails, oat meal, pnint, paper
' bags nnd boxes, pins, pottery, presses,
rivets, rubber, silk, soap, spools, tacks,
textiles, typewriters, wagons, wall pa
'0r nnd wire.
THE ROUND-UP
Jim Hurry, a railroad employe, was
murdered' at, Wolf Creek, fivo miles
south of Glendalc some time yesterday
Jim Chapman, a soetion workman, who
was seen in his company last, has dis
appeared. Ralph Henry, acquitted of murder in
killing George Dodd, was sent to the
insane asylum Friday. He expects to
bo released in a few days, as he has
now regained his sanity the trial be
ing over.
While Portland has 35,000 women
eligible to vote, only 10,000 have regis
tered to date, and there only remains
20 days in which the balance can reg
ister, Mrs. Roy E. Johnson, of Springfield,
was sovcrely and perhaps fatally
burned Wednesday, her clothes catch
ing firo from the kitchen stove,
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F. X. Mathieu, tho venerable pioneer,
who is quite sick at Portland, is re
ported as somewhat improved. He is
94 years old, and tho wish is goncral
that ho may round (lit a full century.
Sensido has worked tho recall on
Mnyor Gilbert, 74 names more than re
quired being on tho petition. Tho wo
men took an active part in perfecting
tho petition.
A FIRM BELIEVE IN
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Mr. Arenz Sets Out Some of the Points
of Superiority Claimed for
Concrete.
In support of his contentions in re
gard to tho paving question now to the
fore in thiB city, George Arenz, of tho
company of Arenz & Son, sets forth a
few features in substantiating tho ac
tual worth and wearing qualities of thoi
hard surfaco pavement. ' He is an ar-1
dent boliover in concrete pavement and J
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TENSION TABLES
We Handle the Famous LENTZ Dining Tables
which are made in Nashville, Mich, by one of the largest table factories in the
World. Every table is made of solid quarter-sawed oak, and is a marvel for beauty
and perfection. They come f inished in golden waxed or polished oak, as you wish
EVERY TABLE IS FINISHED AND LOOKS FINISHED
EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
OP CAPITAL JOURNAL
Graham I. Talier, Esq.,
Salem, Oregon.
My llenr Mr. Taber:
I want to congratulate you on the
splendid showing made in Tho Journal
of Inst Saturday's demonstration in con
nection with tho opening of tho new
bridge. Being a printer and newspaper
man myself, I enn well realize what
thnt involves in a placo like Salem,
where of course you do not have all the
advantages possessed by tho metropolis
. tun newspapers. It was certainly a
trood showing and I will tnke pleasure
in spreading it broadcast to the extent
that Mr. Woodruff is ablo to get copies
of tho paper. I am only sorry that ar
rangements were not made for a largo
. number of them in advance.
Thanking you very much, for the
many thoughtful courtesies extended by
yourself and ofher good friends at 8a
. lem to Mrs. Strahorn and myself, and
again wishing to earnestly express the
sontimont that I am thoroughly imbued
with tho Idea that the demonstration
was a great thing for 8alom, as well as
for tho interests I represent, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
ROBT. E. STRAHORN.
Scott & Scott arc purchasers of the
Tcctz new and second hand furnlturo
business at 2.i2 State street, are ex
perienced merchants .and are increas
ing their stock with new goods which
are much need to meet the demands
of their patrons, J. E. Scott Is with
the well known firm of Bochtol & By-
tinn rnnl (-state firm, and Chas. E.
Scott was formerly with the Wade,
Fearce Co.
An TJp-to-Date Hardware Store.
Ray L. Farmer, an old resident of
Salem, who conducts one of tho finest
hardware stores in tho state, has been
on that samo comor for twenty-eight
years. Mr. Farmer has grown in the
business with tho improvement. Mr.
Farmer begnn when all cooking utensils
wore made by hand, Btich as tinware,
kettles, wnHh boilers, etc. Can you roal
izo it! it hardly scorns possible, but in
this day nnd age everything is turned
out with groat rapidity ond at much
less cost, with tho lutest improved ma
chinery and in great factories. Look
through this store and you will find
everything for tho kitchen, and to
make the home more comfortable and
woman 'b work easier. Springtime de
mands a change.
in view of tho fact Salom Is on the eve,
so to speak, of a new ora In paving, ho
offers some suggestions along the ine.
"Salein can reach across the conti
nent and shake handB with Dotroit,
Michigan," said Mr. O. C. Aronz &
Sons, to tho Capital Journal man, this
morning.
'.' We havo made a long stride on the
road that Detroit has travelled in lay
ing her coucrcto pavements. Upwards
of 85 miles of tho type of solid cou
crcto that wo lay on our Salom street
has been put down in Wayne county,
Mich., of which Detroit is tho conter,"
added Arenz.
Ho thon spoke of tho more sovero tost
ou tho concrete in Wayne county by
virtue of tho heavier trucks and tho
heavy tonnage thut pours into tho big
automobile city from tho county at
largo, Edward N. Hiuos, chairman of
tho Wayne County Road Commission,
took a census of the traffcie at a given
point, which showed that in four yoars
POPCORN CONTEST.
Novel Corn-Raising Contest Inaugur
ated by Capital National Bank
Feature of Salem School Fair.
Marion county may yet become fam
ous as a corn-producing county, if the
efforts of soveral hundred boys and
girls can accomplish this result, and
unless all signs fail there will be more
popcorn in this county noxt fall than
theie ever Was before.
One of the interesting featured of the
Siiietn school fnir to bn hold in the Ar
mory in Salem next fall, will be the
popcorn contest.
Tho Capital National bank has of
fered i"0 in prizes for this contest,
which will bo open to every pupil of
tho public Bchools in Marion county.
Tho seed will bo furnished free by the
bank and the prizes will go to tho boys
nnd girls who raise tho most good pop
corn on a single plat of ground not ex
ceeding 1200 square feet in area. Tho
size of the planting has boon limited,
being only about 1-3(5 of an aero, so
that the boys and girls living in the
cities will havo a chance at tho prizes,
which will bo thirteen in number. All
tho work, except tho first plowing or
spading of tho ground, must bo per
formed by tho contestants.
Tho result expected is that hundreds
of families in Mnrion county will bo
popping corn next winter, and hundreds
of boys and girls will enjoy thoir win
ter evenings at homo eating the crisp
snowy flakes which they themselves
produced.
Many, no doubt, will have some to
sell on tho market, where it commands
a good price.
The boys nnd girls who enter the con
test will begin getting thoir ground in
order right away, as a full month can
well be spent getting the soil in per
fect condition for planting. Prof. Scud
dor, head of tho department of agricul
ture at tho Orogou Agricultural College,
says the best time to plant the seed is
in May after tho ground Is warm and
danger from frost is past.
Entry blanks aro now being prepared
and will be ready for distribution ou
and after April 1. After that dnte
County Superintendent Smith will, upon
the application of any teacher,. forward
to the teacher the number of blanks re
quired for the signatures of (he pupils
who desire to enter the race. If more
convenient tho blanks and seed enn bo
procured by calling at tho superintend
ent's office In the court house, or at
the Capital National bank.
The judging will bo under the supor
vision of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege, and prizes will be awarded as fol
lows: First prize, 15; second, 110; third,
5j fourth, 2; fifth, 2; sixth, 2; sev-
enth, 2; eighth, 2; ninth, (2; tenth,
$2; eleventh, $2; twelfth, $2; thirteenth
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over 1,300,000 vchiclos (more traffic 1 1
than would go over an ordinary country I J
road in twenty years) had passed, with- j
out Bhowing ruts, holes or bumps and j ,J
with next to nothing Bpent for surface,
maintenance,
"Sulem can hold her hoad up in tho
bid she makes for colonists," continued j
Mr. Arenz. "Tho man who comes from
a well paved eastern section naturally
gives us credit for our coucrcto pave-
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Joaquin valley, in California, argue its
attractions, bocauso of their 100 miles
of concrete roads, we can claim that our
own good start points to the day when
Salem concrete will not only be laid in
tho city but out into the country."
"The Now York state appropriation
of fifty million is going-into concrete.
Even the Florida ovorgladcs are now
being invaded by the smooth evorlast
ing concrote Toads,"
" It should bo remombercd that Salom
can make a strong bid over towns in
tho valley that havo- paid high priceB
for the bitulithic. The easterner is no
fool when he buys a home. He comes
from the oldor section where concrete
is largely used In paving. They will
rate us high for our choice of con
crete. They will thank us for eliminat
ing that particular typo of bituminous
pavement that cannot bo boldly guaran
teed to wear, and that comes high both
in first cost and expense of. mainte
nance. "Noar Seattle thero Is an experiment
that would make most any homo seeker
shy awa.," Mr Arenz declares. "This
road was said by its builders to bo tho
last word in rond building. It cost tho
taxpayers $15,000 per milo. It was
bitulithic, laid on a crushed rock found
ation. After tho road was finished,
Old Sol enmo at high noon with tho
heat of a summer day and gave it a
solar-plexus blow. Tho tar top grow
soft under tho bent. Thero were
spongy places beneath the crushed rock.
Knter now the heavy wagons. Down
through tho soft top, pressing the
crushed rock into the soft earth, went
tho wheels. The $15,000 creation wreck
ed. Of course, tho paving monopoly
that built tho load enmo up nnd rebuilt
it, but a burnt child drends tho firo and
when tho commissioners planned to put
in a second road of tho samo perishable
type, the taxpayers rose up and public
opinion made tho authorities use con
crete." Mr. Arenz harks back to tho attitude
of tho engineers who aro laying con
crcte'for roads. "Water may stand on
this concreto nnd no harm follows,"
says Arenz. "With bitumen, standing
water means a rotted place. Then a
hole, lnto'this tho heavy vehicle drops,
tho holo grows and tho pavement
wrecks. As a result of a scientific test
made' by the Wayne county commis
sioners, light is thrown on the wearing
quality of concrete. Tho Pavement Do
terminator, a device for testing pave
ments was used. This test showed that
sections of brick, cedar block, granite
block and bituminous pavement under
the severe test, showed a wear of l'v
inches. Tint tho wear on concreto wn
hardly perceptible.
"Our Sniem pavements laid with con
creto have a gritty surface, you must
remember. They afford good traction
for all types of vehicles," concludes
Arenz, "Horses find good footing oi
concrete, without regard to wet wcath
er and no man can tell its length of
service, since with each passing year
Iconcrete take on grcator strength."
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ing qualities of the solid ork tables.
See Our Window Display
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